The fact that he's really the highest paid President surprises me. Don't know why exactly, just didn't realize it.
I guess the biggest beef most AU fans have is his reluctance or refusal to let Jacobs go when the overall athletic program is in the shitter, record-wise. We've all heard that Gogue is not big on athletics and doesn't like to get that involved with it. I believe it. However, you have to ask if that really defines his body of work as President? By all indications, the athletic department is generating revenue, and after extensive investigation, appears to be run clean. We can all bitch and gripe about how basketball and girl's softball suck, but there's not one of us who would give a rat's ass about any of that if the football team was competing for SEC championships.
Gogue has been President since what, 2007? In that time frame, Auburn's campus has literally been transformed and continues to go through unprecedented changes. I know that construction has seemingly always been going on, but the last few years have been unbelievable. I always wonder when they might get to a point where they stop and say, "Okay, this is the campus of Auburn University." Honestly, I have no idea how much or how little he has to do with all that but I assume as President, he has a good bit of influence. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge of that could comment.
Personally, I'd like to see him take a bigger interest and role in trying to get AU athletics back on track. Athletics, mainly football, is a common thread that really ties Auburn people together. But when I look around at Auburn and the progress and changes that are constantly going on, I have to think he's doing something right.
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